My ancestor (grandfather being Edw. Yonge Wootten of Wilmington, N.C.) Framcis Yonge was the Lords Proprietors Surveyor-General of the Bahamas, Carolinas, and Georgia. Earlier he had been H. M. Commissioner of Ordnance for the fortification of Gibraltar; living Lisbon, Portugal. His was of the Army Yonges of Cayton Manor, Salop, Shropshire, England. The Navy Yonges being of Plymouth, England.

His son, the Hon. Henry Yonge, Sr., of Savannah, Georgia, H. M. Surveyor-General of Georgia, Loyalist; wed Christianna Bulloch, who in his Loyalist Claims, Henry called a "Rebel", as she got his Loyalist sequested estates. She was the sister of Patriot Gov. Archibald Bulloch of Georgia.

By wife Elizabeth Bellinger (daughter of militia Capt. Wm. Bellinger, Sr., and Mary Cantey) who was the grandchild of Capt. Edmund Bellinger, Sr., Master of the "Blake" which brought the first cattle to South Carolina; Henry had Henry, Jr., and Philip. Edmund was a S.C. Judge in Admiralty, Surveyor-General of S.C., and Landgrave (created 1698) of Tombodly and Ashepoo Baronies, S.C. Henry's summer home "Orangedale" on Skidaway Island, Georgia; is now the site of "The Landings" where an alligator lately invaded a sleeping lady's kitchen, and partook parts of her. He had another "Orangedale" on the St. John's River, Florida.

Maj. Henry Yonge, Jr., Loyalist, was H. M. Attorney-General of British East Florida; who as such, annulled the indentures of 1,000 wrongly enslaved Menorcans of New Smyrna Beach, Florida, and commanded a company of them as H. M. Provincial Troops, in the Rebellion. His plantation is now Ormond, Florida; it's public library on Yonge Street.

Maj. Yonge's younger brother was Capt. Philip Yonge, Loyalist, H. M. Surveyor-General of Georgia, who wed Christiana Mackenzie, daughter of Capt. Wm. Mackenzie, in 1775 H. M. Comptroller and Collector of Customs, Sunbury, Georgia. William was the brother of George, Third Earl Cromartie, of Cromarty, Scotland, attained for Jacobite Rebellion against the Crown (to save George, his wife "plead her belly"). George's daughter, Lady Mary Mackenzie, wed prominent Georgians/S. Carolinians; I'm not sure which of Messrs. Drayton, Middleton, Ainslie, and/or Clarke ? Mrs. Yonge's sister, Anna Jean Mackenzie, wed John Simpson, Jr. (son of Chief Justice), H. M. Chief Justice of Georgia, Member of H. M. Council, and Crown Clerk of Court. In 1746, Capt. Wm. Mackenzie had sailed up the Cape Fear River to Wilmington, N.C.

The Yonge coat-of-arms is very complicated and bears the Tudor Rose, ant the Latin motto in English is: "Not Without Thorns". The three mile entrance to Yonge's Island, S.C., had the "Cherokee Rose" it's length. From China, and not a true rose, Henry Sr., introduced it from China (co-introduced the mulberry tree for the silk trade). The Cherokee Rose is the state lower of Georgia.